Xanadu Tea Shop in Great Yarmouth

A hidden gem, well worth visiting. Very generous sized portions. Very friendly - will return without a doubt next time we visit Great Yarmouth.

Great friendly service with a smile. A rarity these days. This isn’t a corporate brand. Instead it’s a cheerful fella who couldn’t have been more helpful. My wife and I had a wonderful pot of tea and a lovely latte coffee alongside the most amazing homemade sausage rolls pork and pickle) and very moist and very flavoursome lemon drizzle cake and carrot cake. What a find! Tucked away in the Victoria Arcade and should be a must visit for anyone visiting the area.

My group of five friends (all of a certain age) arrived in Gt Yarmouth in the afternoon from the bus that had taken us from Lowestoft. We were all in need of a decent cup of tea or equivalent & we could find nothing in the immediate vicinity of the Market Gates Bus Station so we took a short stroll into King Street. There we encountered the entrance to the Victoria Arcade. This looked exactly as the name sounded: a shopping arcade with a vintage glass canopy & filled with small shops all with period glazed wooden frontages. Because of its location its original type of shops had long disappeared but we persevered until at right angle bend in the arcade (most unusual, arcades are usually straight) we discovered the Xanadu Tea Shop with tables both inside & outside in the arcade. We were made welcome with tea served from a pair of art deco stainless steel tea pots, plus coffees for our non tea addicts. Homemade fruit scones, carrot cakes & sausage rolls were served. All for just over £21. It had the welcome plus of customer toilets. We left there truly sated & ready for our next bus ride which took us back to our day’s starting point of Norwich.